tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post3884376255665014432..comments2022-06-29T08:53:03.580+02:00Comments on Compas Pascal: The problem with С in programmingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-49523047421092643682008-10-24T13:34:00.000+02:002008-10-24T13:34:00.000+02:00The wooden beer cases went out of the market aroun...The wooden beer cases went out of the market around 1970. Today, a good, original beer case like that is considered a collector's object, so take good care of it :-)Lars Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06217303713945608384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-76248980139990986202008-10-24T13:22:00.000+02:002008-10-24T13:22:00.000+02:00Seems Russians have long used the K-8 or KOI-8, so...Seems Russians have long used the K-8 or KOI-8, something like that, codepages. IIRC, the standard 127 ASCII chars were where they always are, and the Cyrillic characters in the remaining positions. Drivers made switching easy.<BR/><BR/>I think that's the box, yes, but mine's in much better condition. Quite small for a beer case. Surprising, considering what my experience with Danes and Alcohol Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-55856198367665358792008-10-23T10:09:00.000+02:002008-10-23T10:09:00.000+02:00Is this the kind of wooden box you have?http://www...Is this the kind of wooden box you have?<BR/><BR/>http://www.savanten.dk/Billeder%20ting%20og%20sager/tuborgkasse.JPGLars Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06217303713945608384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-23759116122061929972008-10-23T10:05:00.000+02:002008-10-23T10:05:00.000+02:00When you need to type Russian and English on the s...When you need to type Russian and English on the same keyboard, you need to switch keyboard layout, a lot. In order to ease that, you will usually choose an easy keyboard combination. Some choose Shift+Control, and some just choose Control. If you accidentally hit that combination at the wrong time, and then type C, then you don't recognize that it's the wrong type of C.<BR/><BR/>As I said, I Lars Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06217303713945608384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-28736733015429978662008-10-23T09:51:00.000+02:002008-10-23T09:51:00.000+02:00The Russian companies I know generally have accept...The Russian companies I know generally have accepted latin character versions of their names.<BR/><BR/>In the English speaking programming world, I always write the "ö" in my name as just "o".<BR/><BR/>By the way, long ago I inherited a solid green wooden box from my father. On the side it says, in red letters, "OL". (where O is that danish O/ thing you wrote). Well, for the first time in my lifeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-27792578360601875002008-10-22T15:16:00.000+02:002008-10-22T15:16:00.000+02:00In Denmark, it works this way: Let's imagine you w...In Denmark, it works this way: Let's imagine you want to make a beer commercial, and you want to redirect to BEER.COM in a Danish version, it will become ØL.DK.<BR/><BR/>The browser will translate this domain name to XN--L-4GA.dk and open that webpage for you.<BR/><BR/>What is the alternative? The recommended method is to use OEL.DK, but almost nobody does that. Børsten chose BORSEN.DK, and they Lars Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06217303713945608384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-676632754296187022008-10-22T14:42:00.000+02:002008-10-22T14:42:00.000+02:00Unicode domain names? What a joke!The primary argu...Unicode domain names? What a joke!<BR/><BR/>The primary argument used to advocate Unicode was no longer seeing nonsensical characters when you go on to non-latin web pages (useful for those with the linguistic skill to read the foreign language.)<BR/><BR/>Now we discover we probably cannot access them (easily) in any case, because those characters are not on standard latin keyboards! The internetAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-73263993987667371332008-10-22T11:17:00.000+02:002008-10-22T11:17:00.000+02:00Even russian programmers do not use cyrillic lette...Even russian programmers do not use cyrillic letters for naming variables. So it should not be a big problem for professionals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-77802801483436075562008-10-22T10:45:00.000+02:002008-10-22T10:45:00.000+02:00I don't consider that to be a huge problem, becaus...I don't consider that to be a huge problem, because most people don't check the domain name, anyway. Getting the right URL is a problem that should be solved in a different way than by the choice of character set.<BR/><BR/>It may be of inconvenience to you, but unicode domain names are very convenient to those that have no idea how to transliterate to latin letters.Lars Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06217303713945608384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-50918547656659462342008-10-22T10:36:00.000+02:002008-10-22T10:36:00.000+02:00That's why it was also a big security problem to a...That's why it was also a big security problem to allow Unicode characters in domain names. You could easily register a web site with a name that is indistinguishable from an existing web site and draw people to it with a phony link.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434108347727659251.post-36037063976160800362008-10-21T20:20:00.000+02:002008-10-21T20:20:00.000+02:00That's why I'm a fan of ASCII identifiers.That's why I'm a fan of ASCII identifiers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com